The journey of a lifetime begins with a single step. I wish these scientists and engineers success. They have a very difficult task ahead of them. Making the technology scalable to make a difference is one huge task.
@@evielknievel4972 There's already a job for every problem you can think of. If you don't like the way something is being done there's nothing stopping you from pursuing it.
Interesting that they credit the wireless transmission of power as an Isaac Asimov thing and not a Nikola Tesla thing since he was not just writing, he was actually working on it long before.
Tesla did a lot of talking about wireless energy transfer but as far as people know it was just talk. I know his tech could have been hidden but as far as we know he wasn't successful. We may one day get free energy that one day causes everyone to get cancer. Every solution creates new problems and we are one scientific breakthrough away from destruction because of our limited knowledge.
Yes, and if you want the world's least efficient way to transmit power, due to the inverse square law, then YEAH - you go ahead and develop this technology. I'm sure you'll make a fortune!
"This generation shall not pass away until all these things come to pass. These are just the birthing pains. The first of Noah's cataclysmic tidal Tsunamis will be pulled out and around the planet SE to NW by the new moon with the first major conjunction of mercury and Venus in 2033 and every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes the earths orbits to precess between the fermie cells of the Sun's Oort cloud magnetosphere. Mystery of the 7 star crossings Jesus held in his hand. 5 loaves in with 2 apocalyptic 1,000 year fish crossings to go until perigee with the galactic bulge. Repent come to Jesus as he is the truth life and only way to have life and life more abundantly.
@MAGnetICus_Attractus, my thoughts too... if directed microwave can heat you up it can damage cells... no matter what the representative says. He just wants the funding. We all can get cancer.🫠
My dyson sphere broke after just 3 months, and unfortunately I was out of the return period at target. So if you need one I have one handy, doesn't work great though.
We will have to develop new materials and material synthesis methods. Then mine the asteroid fields for rare earth minerals. This will take generations but it is what we will need to even begin truly exploring and colonization of the local galaxy.
This is a scam. No telecommunication authority would approve this as it is dangerous to people. It's noninising radiation, but at high level it literally cooks you alive, we are talking about 1k-100k more power than a mobile cell tower.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert? It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth. What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines. The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes. This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
Perhaps some of the weirder anomalies we are seeing around other stars (the transit light dipping) is because extraterrestrial civilizations have already mastered this? who knows - i guess we will know soon enough.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 ignoring everything else, solar power doesn't necessarily mean it's better. The cells lose efficiency when they get too hot and it lowers the lifespan of the cells. Places that get a lot of sun and more mild temps are much better
@@mulattofy You are thinking of solar panel power plants I'm talking about the mirror type power plants that focus light on one point and heats sea water to create steam that then turns turbines.
Within our grasp? NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction) is upon us. CO² is around 500ppm, when you take into account methane and nitrous oxide. 100-200 species are going extinct each day and this has been going on for years. This is MSM peddling hopium, because the truth is too hard for them to pass along to people. So sad...
@@menotyou8369 That I'm not sure since nobody built and measure one today. This is not regular transverse electromagnetic wave but a pulsed on direction of propagation electric field. The magnetic component is ignored. Unless you know somebody tried and measured... please post a link if you have one
I wouldn't really call this much of an advance. This technology has been around for ages. Just no one has bothered to attempt a space based microwave energy transmission. Granted, new ideas and technology has made the technology more efficient. Efficient enough that transmitting it from space may be viable.
For those wondering, the Isaac Asimov short story referred to in the beginning of this video is _Reason,_ published in 1941. Asimov's character was a robot living on (essentially) a solar power harvesting plant. He was visualizing this even before the end of WWII!
@@georgelopez4193 Actually, _I_ was wondering. So, I went and looked it up. I figured if I was wondering, someone else might be wondering, too. Therefore, I wanted to share what I had just learned. Cynical much?
I’m not a scientist. To much math and all that other stuff. but when it’s simplified down to my average brain this stuff sounds pretty cool in the resources we can achieve
Would be nice if they did a more critical deep dive instead of this fluff piece to really examine the physics, economics, etc. It's an interesting idea, but they side-stepped the question of safety. Also, do they envision sending a constant stream of energy down to some energy storage/conversion facility or would you periodically recharge these facilities, which would basically be giant batteries? Would the same space solar farm be able to recharge multiple facilities at different latitudes/longitudes? Maybe the most basic question, is it even worth it? These have to be launched into (geostationary?) orbit, which is costly; What are the energy capture/transmission efficiencies? What are the lifetimes of these solar cells in space? Being in space is a double-edged sword as there is more and more constant energy from the sun, but you are also not protected from a lot of ionizing and high energy radiation that can degrade electronics. Not saying this couldn't make sense, but it would be better for everyone to demand a little more from these types of "breakthroughs" instead of hearing clean energy and cheering reflexively.
When he killed the power to the drone for the second time - I just saw the engineer's heart sink. "Ooo Oooo Ooooo.....can we power an object moving and 700mph" - What a muppet.
And even if those frequencies are not ionizing, if water still absorbs some of that energy could it raise temperatures in areas with a lot of water vapor? More studies should be conducted. DARPA has proved pumping energy into the atmosphere can have surprising effects.
The only way it works is to put the system in geosynchronous orbit so that it doesn't wander away from the ground-based station aimpoint. The amount of energy required to do that per kilogram of solar panel would exceed the amount of energy it could convert over a 50 year lifetime. So the whole thing is just a greenwash boondoogle. It might be useful for military applications (powering comms or EW surrepititiously), but it's NOT at all "green".
Gerard K. O'Neill talked about this in the 1970s and 80s. Read his book: The Space Studies Institute, founded on his ideas, is still working on the idea.
Yes, I read his book many years ago. However, I've since seen a lecture about Thorium reactors where the speaker pointed out that even if you could get the material in orbit at no cost it still wouldn't be profitable in comparison to other energy sources. Also, I'm just a little uncomfortable despite protestations to the contrary, about the effects of microwaving the atmosphere and its effects on water vapour and hence climate. As to powering aeroplanes with microwaves, TV reporters shouldn't think out loud.
@@harryflashman3141 Well, I wouldn't trust a thorium-reactor dude for a walk around the corner. Neither do I trust these dudes, but it sonds more plausible. Micorwaves can be emmitted in wavelenghts that do not interfere with anything, otherwise we would be already fried as these are widely used for telecoms.
O'Neill envisaged space solar as the primary industrial reason for settling cislunar space. Providing jobs that help Earth with unlimited carbon-neutral energy while humanity expands ever further into the solar system for jobs, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge.
Not at all. Ozone depletion is caused by chlorine and bromine atoms. They are released into the air by such things as some coolants, fire extinguishers and pesticides. Not all chlorine and bromine sources contribute to ozone depletion. Global Warming is caused by greenhouses gasses, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
@@linux750 What you just said, jon, was profound. So profound as to inspire a fundamental world-changing awareness injection into the human collective consciousness. That aspect of our phenotype is now in a state of rapid evolution. Not for the first time, our tool use has driven our development. That tool, of course, is the one we use to communicate with, which is a set of tools working constantly as one big tool. Speaking of tools, you have identified an archetype that could be used to construct an iconoclastic defense against the meme of profiting, vampiring of individual human intellect. The opening statement of a future court case: My Client was Edisonized by Mr.(Bates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos, whoever). Or this opening statement in a supreme court case: If these corporations are allowed to edisonize this humanity-changing discovery, it will result in the permanent enslavement of the majority of humanity by that minority of society, thus the emergence of new species of humans that exclusively prey upon other humans. Thus H G Wells has manifested his prediction for the future in his novel: The Time Machine.
That just tells me that even though this is newly released technology, it’s already over 20 years old in development. Someone must have thought about it in order for it to make it in that game all those years ago.
@@desmondstanley4372dude, people thought about this idea simce the 60's. Science already knows how to fix lots of stuff, the problem is funding. We can end hunger and poverty right now, but there's no will to do that.
The part that actually scares me is that it can be directed anywhere the person with the joystick wants. Not saying it’s necessarily a bad idea, but it does bring to mind countless Bond villains destroying their targets with beams from space.
The military has long since developed and weaponized this tech on their own. I've only seen non-lethal deterrent type weapons though, but I also haven't looked into it for a while.
Congrats, I watched a ted talk presented by ali about his wireless energy technology which was super fascinating, im happy to see that he achieved the vision he was going for, this is amazing!
Der Sinn des Lebens liegt nicht im Aussen, er ist in Dir drinnen. Deine eigene spirituelle Entwicklung ist das allerwichtigste in dieser Inkarnation. Das andere ist eine 2. Geschichte zu der man bestimmt sein kann, es ist die Lebensaufgabe die auf Deine Erfahrungen während der spirituellen Entwicklung, basiert...hat nichts mit Kirche oder Religion zu tun...
Amazing breakthrough. I've always hoped there would be a way to use the suns energy on large scale and easy. Since the sun is always there producing it and you basically have an unlimited energy supply until the sun dies, but then we're all dead and probably long before that
I would really love to read a report on how this affects the environment at a macro and localised scale based on different parameters of deployment. I wanna be optimistic and hope more work goes into this project.
@@inventorknowledge703 that transmitter is a prototype and if it is recieving energy then it can use some of that energy to cool itself and transmit out the rest. would be like a fridge sending out electricity to the rest of the house.
@@Deathwish026 Bruh, that's not how it works, Net energy gain, equals more heat. heat = energy, the problem is we need to transmit energy away from earth faster then we cause it to build up. for that we need to reduce green house gas levels in the atmosphere because they reflect the heat / energy back to earth and continue to heat the atmosphere.
I feel like money (and the potential thereof) is what writes those results... oh, and the ability to weaponize the tech. I'm pretty sure these folks aren't motivated by the possibility of bringing energy to sub-Saharan Africa.
If battery technology continues to improve, this could fly over-head and charge batteries which could last for the rest of the day and night, until it came back around to recharge the batteries once again. It may take decades to break even, but after that, the amount of money to be made here is potentially astounding.
'BATTERYLESS BATTERIES': (copy and paste from my files): To help power equipment in outer space: Potential endless energy source basically anywhere in this universe: a. Small aluminum cones with an electrical wire running through the center of the cones, cones spaced apart (not touching I'm thinking) but end to end. b. Electromagentic radiation energy in the atmosphere interacts with the aluminum cones. c. Jostled atoms and molecules in the cone eventually have some electrons try to get away from other electrons of which those electrons gather at the larger end of the cone, of which also creates an area of positive charge at the smaller end of the cone. d. The electron's in the wire are attracted to the positive end of the cone and the positive 'end' in the wire are attracted to the negatively charged end of the cone. e. Basically a 'battery' has been created inside the electrical wire itself, different areas of electrical potential. Basically a 'wire battery' or a 'batteryless battery', however one wanted to call it. f. Numerous cones placed end to end increases the number of 'batteries' in the wire. (In series to increase voltage, in parallel to increase amperage). * Via QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics) whereby electromagnetism interacts with electrons in atoms and molecules, one would have to find the correct 'em' frequency for the correct material being utilized for the cones. The shape of the cones could also come into play. The type and size of the wire as well as the type and thickness of the insulation between the cones and the wire would also be factors. * Of course also, possibly 2D triangles made up of certain materials with a conductor going down through the center of the triangle could possible achieve the same 'batteryless' battery system. * Plus possibly with the 2D concept, layered 2D's that absorb different energy frequencies, thereby increasing the net output.
They talked about solar collection in space, but what about the transmitter? How big is that, and how much heat does it produce at receivers on the ground?
This is so cool!! Even if the idea they have doesn’t totally pan out, ITS OKAY because that is how you do science. Trial and error, theory into practice. Excited to see how it goes and how other scientists can build upon this !
I mean, it's always been possible... but why have we suddenly thought it a good idea to start putting tons of extremely high power RF beams raining down on us? We're not just talking television service transponders or something. This is like HAARP transmitters on steroids to become useful.
It's funny because I remember imagining and drawing pictures about getting energy from space as a kid.. I didn't even know why I just remembered learning about solar panels and then started making pictures of satellites with long extension cords lol.
If you're standing in front of a transmitter and you start feeling warm, that's not a great sign (from what I was taught as an airman basic in radar school). This seems like a neat idea, but the line of sight requirement means that you have a straight path of potential serious health issues if you're sending a lot of energy. To me this looks like a VERY specialized use case energy transfer mechanism, essentially far from living things or at least with a safe line of sight from transmitter to receiver.
Not only does this seem dangerous due to it being microwaves, I also feel like this is a smoke and mirror act. We just have to take their word for it that the drone they tested it on didn’t have a battery in it?…. Also wouldn’t it be a massive flaw if all it takes is some guys hand to shut off power to whatever the microwaves are powering?
i totally agree, this is the equivalent to standing infront of a microwave with the door oven. They say it is non ionising, so assuming they are transmitting at super high frequency, That is still not good for you ( im not a 5G hater ). And what happens if an array in space gets misaligned, a tength of a degree in space is a couple of miles on earth = rotisserie city, just like grandma made them.
And that's low power compared to something needed to power a city or state. If it does take off and something goes wrong, many people will die and the corporations will just say sorry.
my question is how much energy is lost to the atmosphere, and specifically where. Is this going to deplete the ozone layer more than the alternatives? is it possible that it could cause harm to people near the receiver or otherwise?
Well being a 3-5 watt light bulb was enough to make a guy feel hot, imagine the 4+kw required for a house. It could power your home and melt steel at the same time.
@@reh3884 actually shooting microwaves though the atmosphere could produce ozone if I remember correctly. I don't think it would deplete it. Now cooking the guy standing on the ground... that's a real possibility. God forbid they lost control of it and it kept transmitting, it would become a WMD.
@@reh3884 i don't know too much about the atmosphere. All i know is that we're already damaging it, and I want to know if this solution is going to be less damaging than others. If you're transmitting a city worth of power from space, there's logically at least some loss to the atmosphere and i want to know if that's worse than current solutions.
@@redpug5042 I think the possibility of harvesting solar power in near future to run cities and homes without any emission of greenhouse gases is the real deal for now and I’m all in for that. However, the dissipated energy could heat up the environment more ? There is a possibility that the lost energy could radiate the existing greenhouse gases and advancing global climate change further rapidly. Correct me if I’m wrong.
After accumulating the sun's energy above the clouds, can it reliably pass that energy down through any clouds? If not, we haven't significantly gained much through the new system.
it's possible to do it through clouds, but I don't think the prototypes they're using will make it through clouds. they mentioned they're using non ionizing wave lengths. if you want to go through the clouds I think you would need smaller wave lengths and such entering the ionizing ranges, so it would probably come with a hazardous air zone immediately about the receiver where the beam would go
The advantage of space based solar is the collection source can be beyond the Earth's shadow so that it can collect solar energy 24/7. The receiver stations on earth can be located in dry desert climates that have few clouds to maximize efficiency and then distributed from there thru transmission lines. It's a long way off if it's ever even economically viable in the first place.
@@quietus13 nope, that does not work well.... For the same reason that solar collection in those places does not work as well. How do you move the power? On wires? they lose electricity ever meter. In batteries? 1) EXPENISVE and 2) they lose power also The best idea I have heard of is using artificial fuel ( like gasoline). You use the solar power to create carbon neutral fuel and then transport it to where ever. Yes you lose energy in this process also, BUT you lose LESS then the other systems and it is cheaper as well then the batteries. Plus if we use that, then we can switch older cars to synthetic gas and help with pollution. Right now the only place trying this idea (artificial fuel) is using nuclear power. I would rather see solar used then creating more nuclear waste.
This is a huge advancement. The transmission is not the difficulty and that will likely be solved soon. Think about the touch screen on an iPhone. We though we would never be able to interact with a phone like we do now yet they created it. The transmitter is likely going to be the same. It will just take a few years to solve the issue.
Very interesting. I wonder how does this transmission of energy actually work? Would the weather and cloud block this beam of energy? How much power does it actually give? What’s the radius of this beam? Can this radius be controlled? How much energy does it take to maintain these modules? Will they be able to send energy at the night side of Earth? So many questions but the subject is interesting nonetheless.
It's not free to make and to send it in space, of course you gonna have to pay to use that technology but I hope and it surely won't happen that the day it's gonna be refunded we won't have to pay to use it. It would be a big step forward for humanity.
Nothing is free. You must work for everything that is the way of life on earth. You cannot blame politicians or people for this, this way of life has existed for hundreds of millions of years before humans
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert? It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth. What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines. The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes. This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
@@TheCool_Guy23this is worse than oil and gas. Let’s put a (his words) “heat lamp” directly onto earth. Talk about global warming. Comments here oblivious to silent contributor to the drying out of the earth and all of its inhabitants… Electromagnetic Radiation.
I'm not a conspiracy person at all, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that technology that allows super high powered beams of energy to be "transmitted" across large distances has "other implications". While this specific implementation may utilize non-ionizing wavelengths, I can't imagine it'd be difficult to change that. Either way, very cool technology and my hats off to these researchers.
@@motosk8er2 It's not unfeasible if the ancients used it to power the cities here and off planet. There is only opposition to change and progress which we are all used to.
@@motosk8er2If it was feasible the amount of energy that would be in transmitted through the air is insane and unsafe. I don’t get how this stuff makes the news.
This is fantastic. The news showed it as "carbon free", but would it exacerbate the real problem, global warming, if used on a large scale? Would it bring more heat/energy onto the planet that otherwise would have been reflected away?
about 30% of solar radiation is reflected back into space without heating the atmosphere, and these collectors would of course prevent any sunlight which strikes them from reaching the atmosphere, so unless they're more than 30% efficient at converting that light into microwaves and beaming those microwaves out, it would be impossible for the process to result in net energy gain for the planet. when you consider that state of the art solar panels are currently less than 25% efficient and that none of the collected energy which is converted to useful work would contribute to global warming, it becomes clear that the answer to your - excellent - question is "no". the only way this could conceivably warm the planet would be if we radically increased the efficiency of solar cells, which would be a great problem to have.
@@jd35711 They were talking about providing energy at night. That would cause a net gain in atmospheric heat. How far out in orbit they would need to be to get sunlight at night (beamed down at an angle) didn't seem to be mentioned. And using rockets to get them up there in the first place, how long would they have to be operating to offset that heat/energy addition to the atmosphere.
@@ImperrfectStranger fair points - the details matter, and this video doesn't provide them (though tbf it's a network news clip, not an investor pitch or engineering conference presentation)
@@bonedoc4556 That was one of the claims in the video. Ask them. I can only suggest a wide expanse of transmitters well out in space. You can see the moon at night, can't you? Almost all the light coming from the moon is reflected sunlight.
Hey guys! Would love to have some answers/ solutions for these: 1. Something like this would take a lot to maintain in the space right? 2. From maintaining its orbit and to making it not so much lightweight that it would delocate from the orbit or it might get damaged from the massive solar flares, How would we tackle those? (I guess protective films would be able to help but how would we apply them on the modules as they are very thin? 3. How would we make the modules move relative to the speed of the object which is getting the energy for example car, train, planes? How would we monitor so many transports? 4. What is the efficiency?
Weight isn't really a factor when it comes to maintaining an orbit, as any object in orbit is going to be there pretty much indefinitely. In theory it will eventually run out of momentum, but there's so little up there that could slow it down that you're almost certainly not going to have to do anything more than occasionally adjust in order to remain in a geostationary position. The only thing that weight really affects significantly is how hard it is to achieve orbit and how easy it is to make adjustments when there. Maintenance would be a concern, but if the technology has minimal moving parts and doesn't degrade when exposed to those radiation levels it might not need much unless it gets hit by space debris, which is a very unlikely outcome.
How much heat will it exert on the earth? If someone stands in the beam for an extended period of time, will their health be affected? These are the kinds of questions you should be asking.
most likely there will be substations that receive the initial source of energy and than that will be distributed in other various styles to the current power grid. AC current is generated by spinning magnets. Right now we use gas engines to spin the magnets, we could use this beam as a way to power the spinning of magnets, and those magnets could run our current energy grid indefinitely
I wonder what the collectors will cost (vs the ground-based solar systems). As with all things, I imagine future iterations and lateral technological advancements will produce pleasing advancements provided the research continues and/or is carried out by competing scientists. Also, as the launch costs decrease and the Guru-type technology matures, it will be even more impressive. Hopefully applications remain peaceful and beneficial to all, but big money comes from military contracts. And, when the military is involved, countermeasure systems are right alongside such research. Additionally, such technology could be used with extraplanetary rovers, moon bases (those housed in the shadowy regions of craters), rescue operations, off-grid establishments (with money to burn, I guess).
The problem with your question is "How much it will cost". It doesn't have to cost anything. The monetary system is too ingrained in our brainwashed minds.
Well, one thing for sure, this is another utility driven energy distribution system, which means take from the many and give to the few. Home rooftop solar puts a little bit of money in everyone's pocket. This will take a little bit of everyone's money and put it in the pockets of a few.
@@mickael486 Nothing is truly free. Someone will have to exchange something in order for you to access this technology, at least for a time. After many years it will be making no money because someone will have thought of something better. As that happens, this will have become more widely available to the world. Those with money get everything new for a time. When it is old, the rest will have it. I'm in my mid twenties and I believe that either my children or grandchildren will see free energy for the entire world in some form or another.
@@mickael486 it has to cost what they invest doing this possible, + all the technology employed on it... Chips cost for example because there's a whole process behind it, you know how difficult is to fabricate the transistors that maje your cellphone work??? No you don't your not an Electronic engineer... Well I know, and is not just about the wafers with the Extreme UV machines that are expensive by themselves, to achieve 5 nm 4nm technologies, but also all the process of etching, polishing, etc. The design that engineers have to make to achieve maximum use of the wafers, try to optimize power area and performance somehow because one improved makes the others worse... And even the resources taken from the Earth, because yes Si is everywhere, is sand, not difficult to get should be free, but you have many chemical components in the chips, Gold, Silver, Al, Ga, In, P, Sb, As, etc. Etc. For the dopants, for the connectors, for the BEOL FEOL layers, and every other components in the chip, capacitors, some resistors, the PCB itsel is another material, most of the modern cellphones are IP65 or IP67 of protection, so the same with their technology might have some conditions to gather the beam, is not easy, therefore is not free 😋.... If it was free the Engineers wouldn't have a job and all those years of Fourier transforms and Quantum mechanics that not everyone goes through would be in vain
The one big drawback is when the control system gets hacked and the energy beam is used for destruction. But that is the case for all sources of energy.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert? It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth. What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines. The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes. This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 Not sure about a steam engine running on saltwater. But I see no difference in running a terminal solar plant on sea water as saltwater will boil and create steam that would turn the turbines. I'm sure there would be issues with the brime water that is left after boiling, the longer you keep the water boiling the more salt would build up as when water boils away the salt would remain. Salt is also a little bit corrosive so you would probably have to use materials other than iron for moving the sea water around the plant but those are only minor problems that have to be accounted for.
as it is not ionizing then it wont damage cells and cause cancer. they did mention transmitting energy at lower levels than what you would receive from the sun. i think they said its sent through microwaves
I'm not sure our Planet's climate, and the life it supports, could recover after waiting 1 to 2 decades for this badly needed technology to become an available reality. If NASA, Space X, ESA, JPL, other Science academia organizations, & the commercial energy sector had the Will to work together... this technology could be a reality much, much sooner.
Brings back happy memories of playing Sim City 2000. I'd set up a large microwave array then sit back with the popcorn for a few in-game years to watch a orbital misfire happen and burn a swath through the city. 😆🔥
This is the problem with society. Our ongoing quest for energy, even while our planet is completely collapsing and NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction) is upon us all, from our centuries of gorging on energy. Hopium is still being pushed out to the masses...
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert? It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth. What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines. The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes. This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 the issue is maintenance. Could you imagine all of the dirt that builds up and the amount of work required to keep them clean and functional? It’s astronomical.
@chikapunk4340 Actually there are already many companies that have started putting solar in the Sahara desert so far they haven't run into issues with dirt or dust you could also use something like ceramic wax that creates a positively charged layer that repels dirt and dust preventing anything from sticking to the mirrors.
so... my big question is this: If energy can neither be created, nor destroyed, but merely transformed. What long term cost is beaming energy DIRECTLY to the earth going to have? You felt the heat by merely walking near one of the small devices, imagine one that's much much larger, and the area it will be splashing with microwaves would be much larger. How do we contend with that? There's a lot going on here, beyond the energy delivery.
If this breakthrough is a success, we might just be a step away from entering the next level of civilization, harnessing all the power from our own Sun.
I always love when these big idea tech types answer a question like "how long will this take?" with something like "we're looking at a decade or two." Like, maybe if they use the "one or two" language, it will seem shorter than saying "maybe ten or twenty years."
I have always known we can do this. We got a big fusion reactor right there above us. Never understood why we have to build one on Earth. Wireless power is something we have dreamed of and even could be used to power electric cars and trucks.
I've seen this in documentaries. This will also have the added effect of blocking some, though not nearly all, of the sunlight hitting the planet, helping erase global warming. As more and more of these go up and are stationed equidistant around the earth they will ease the amount of rays entering and heating the planet.
Very fascinating indeed. But the guy felt the heat when he was standing right in front of the small source. Imagine the heat and how it could impact the flights from a kilometre long (as told in video) source.
@@botsareeverywherebe the first to bathe in the microwaves then. Put some chocolate in your pocket so you can see when your fate is in Marie Curie levels.
@@bonedoc4556 Microwave emitters are used all the time to heat muscles and joints in physical therapy. It was xrays and gamma rays that killed Marie Curie.
As an Electrical engineer, this is all great in theory and not reality for mass market. This may be good for initial projects going to different planets, but its the dumbest idea in history to put this in space for all our power needs.
1. wont the EM energy heat up the Earth even More ?..... (If it was massively industrialized...?) 2. How is this ground breaking? Isn’t that how the the sun (and a mirror) works? 3. Where are you going to get the energy and material to make and launch all those “Satellites...? Also; you are going to clutter up the orbit area of Earth even more...?
I’m curious how storm clouds and other weather conditions would affect it. Also sending those large panels into space sounds like the job for a very large reusable rocket. #spacex
This tech is ancient was already here and was removed by the Freemasons. Wake Up People, the buildings ran on wireless electricity. Look at all the antennas on them. The red bricks conducted. Mercury balls lit up the cities from the towers.
@@807800 Correct. This technology isn't new and is certainly not feasible for anything other then the next generation of wireless phone chargers. With how inefficient this is, you would need a 1kw transmitter just to slowly charge a laptop. And a 1kw transmitter is roughly equivalent to your microwave. That would be pretty unpleasant to walk threw and would fry any electronics in it's path. Why do you think the drone was tied down with strings instead of using an actual flight controller board?
While this is great, this would also mean that we now have solar powered death ray satellites orbiting earth. I hope the software and the respective keys are well maintained and kept extra secure lol. I don't get how this hasnt caused an uproar/debate yet.
Exactly but the braindead slaves in the comments here just gobble all the propaganda up. The idea of filling our already polluted lower earth orbit with more satellites, ones the size of football fields, to then transform solar energy into microwave energy to then be beamed back to earth is absurd. Not to mention we would have to implement infrastructure and hardware to convert all those microwaves into electricity. Also, just because microwaves are non ionizing doesn't mean that they have no biological effects. For example our body has adapted and evolved around more powerful UVB rays that we use to produce vitamin D. Just because a 2.45ghz frequency is non ionizing doesnt mean it can have specific effects, such as dielectric heating with water molecules which is why this is used in microwave ovens. The idea of polluting our environment with a bunch of different frequencies of microwaves that were never naturally present on earth is very dangerous. Some animals and insects are even more sensitive to this than us humans.
@@DaleHartley and this uses a more powerful and focused beam of microwaves. Microwaves can hurt you. Not sure why this clown thinks a microwave oven is the same. 🤣
You'll have to pay for the parts, assembly, transportation, replacement, advancement, upkeep and operations. It's possible the costs could go so low that to the average person the cost is practically nothing. Getting it to places power never has been before will open the door to new customers and new profit, which will drive development and growth. This could actually work.
I can imagine a time when this technology is also used in place of high voltage power lines. Instead of having to place towers every 500 meters to support cables, the towers could be many kilometers apart, limited only by the curvature of the Earth.
Oh, and watch birds die huh? And probably all other animals on the planet to.. because a lot non-ionizing radiation IS actually harmful. Just much much slower then ionizing. Like, did you know that holding a cell phone to your head A LOT is actually harmful? Putting it in your pocket, that even bluetooth has been shown to cause changes to cells in test animals? And thats all much lower power then wireless power transmission would be. You're talking about sending millions of watts through the air.. ... that ain't gonna be good for us or the environment.
The problem is that the earth atmosphere and it's water vapor blocks most of the power transmited through the air. THe reciving dishes need to be huge and would bot be feasible. THe whole concept of space based solar is a pipedream that would only work if we somehow changed the laws of physics and that is not possible.
wouldn't this essentially be an invisible death ray between those two points? I just don't see how you move enough energy without it being harmful to anything in the path (since it has to overcome atmospheric losses and transmission/reception side losses). And it's also invisible, seems VERY dangerous to me unless it was deployed in VERY controlled places (and I don't what use case that would be where wires wouldn't be better, but I'm sure there are some where breaching a shape with metal would interfere with its function so this could be a way to get power inside whatever you're building).
Nikola Tesla was way ahead of us, if you go back in history, once he made a car fully electric with no battery and unknown power source, everyone was wondering how he did it. Now, couple of decades later, we reached his level of knowledge with this research.
The journey of a lifetime begins with a single step. I wish these scientists and engineers success. They have a very difficult task ahead of them. Making the technology scalable to make a difference is one huge task.
Thanks captain, they needed your input.
Yea and maybe poke the biggest hole in the atmosphere. And fry some birds as usual.
They should focus on solving real world (down here) problems. The world will be going to the toilet soon.
@@evielknievel4972 There's already a job for every problem you can think of. If you don't like the way something is being done there's nothing stopping you from pursuing it.
We need scientology more than ever now
Not a single number provided in the interview. So, impossible to understand how efficient/feasible it is.
Thank You, I came here to say the same thing after seeing this irritating video on my TV RUclips where I can't make comments.
Efficiency doesn't matter Because the energy source is unlimited (sun)
Even if it's 5% Efficient it's still free energy
Who cares about efficiency if you got unlimited energy?
Because of the speed... You also have unlimited wind, it may not be worth the cost of creation/repairs etc
@@deadAdzy their is no wind in space
Interesting that they credit the wireless transmission of power as an Isaac Asimov thing and not a Nikola Tesla thing since he was not just writing, he was actually working on it long before.
Tesla did a lot of talking about wireless energy transfer but as far as people know it was just talk. I know his tech could have been hidden but as far as we know he wasn't successful. We may one day get free energy that one day causes everyone to get cancer. Every solution creates new problems and we are one scientific breakthrough away from destruction because of our limited knowledge.
Yes, and if you want the world's least efficient way to transmit power, due to the inverse square law, then YEAH - you go ahead and develop this technology. I'm sure you'll make a fortune!
"This generation shall not pass away until all these things come to pass.
These are just the birthing pains.
The first of Noah's cataclysmic tidal Tsunamis will be pulled out and around the planet SE to NW by the new moon with the first major conjunction of mercury and Venus in 2033 and every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes the earths orbits to precess between the fermie cells of the Sun's Oort cloud magnetosphere. Mystery of the 7 star crossings Jesus held in his hand. 5 loaves in with 2 apocalyptic 1,000 year fish crossings to go until perigee with the galactic bulge.
Repent come to Jesus as he is the truth life and only way to have life and life more abundantly.
@@Chris.Davies makes you wonder about Global Warming with Microwave Energy what a novel concept. More 5G Hotspots to make Life Good, LG said.😂
@MAGnetICus_Attractus, my thoughts too... if directed microwave can heat you up it can damage cells... no matter what the representative says. He just wants the funding. We all can get cancer.🫠
Now we are one step closer to a Dyson Sphere and one step closer into being a type 1 civilization
Taking a few steps at a time between this and AI infrastructure tbh . Love to see it
My dyson sphere broke after just 3 months, and unfortunately I was out of the return period at target. So if you need one I have one handy, doesn't work great though.
@@TheGreyLineMatters a step is still a step.
We will have to develop new materials and material synthesis methods. Then mine the asteroid fields for rare earth minerals.
This will take generations but it is what we will need to even begin truly exploring and colonization of the local galaxy.
sci-fitards never learn critical thinking.. a dyson sphere is physically impossible.
More positive stories for humanity like this !! Lets go CAL Tech/USA !!
MSM still peddling hopium to the masses, even in the face of biosphere collapse and NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction)... 👍🏻😭
This is a scam. No telecommunication authority would approve this as it is dangerous to people. It's noninising radiation, but at high level it literally cooks you alive, we are talking about 1k-100k more power than a mobile cell tower.
As an Iranian, I am really proud of this brilliant Iranian genius I mean Prof. Hajimiri for such a great innovation in the energy sector!
Harnessing the sun's energy in such a way is the beginning of an advance civilization, on a cosmic level! big stuff happening here, if it works.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
Perhaps some of the weirder anomalies we are seeing around other stars (the transit light dipping) is because extraterrestrial civilizations have already mastered this? who knows - i guess we will know soon enough.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 ignoring everything else, solar power doesn't necessarily mean it's better. The cells lose efficiency when they get too hot and it lowers the lifespan of the cells. Places that get a lot of sun and more mild temps are much better
@@mulattofy You are thinking of solar panel power plants I'm talking about the mirror type power plants that focus light on one point and heats sea water to create steam that then turns turbines.
@@scroopynooperz9051 interesting theory, ya never know out there... whole stars being utilised to benefit an advanced race
Isn‘t this kinda what Nikola Tesla had in mind? This is tremendous. Incredible and also within our grasp!
Within our grasp? NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction) is upon us. CO² is around 500ppm, when you take into account methane and nitrous oxide. 100-200 species are going extinct each day and this has been going on for years. This is MSM peddling hopium, because the truth is too hard for them to pass along to people. So sad...
Kinda. His transmitters of longitudinal vibrating electric field were on the ground not in space.
@@car9167 And extremely impractical because of the inefficiencies.
@@menotyou8369 That I'm not sure since nobody built and measure one today. This is not regular transverse electromagnetic wave but a pulsed on direction of propagation electric field. The magnetic component is ignored. Unless you know somebody tried and measured... please post a link if you have one
It’s what Nikola was already doing and the government killed and took his work and classified it, now they are just taking credit for his work
Now if only we could transmit genuine meaning to our lives.
Then we wouldn't need to use so much energy and the problem would be solved without a giant death ray from space.
That you have to create for yourself.
Both thumbs in, pull apart, take a whiff. Don't worry about the rest.
my kids give me that
@Spread_love_not_hate8 for you , i can respect that
Great story. I'm a physicist nerd myself and it's so exciting to see these advances coming.
Yeah, what joy. I can see more trash like Bluewalker 3. Yippee!
I wouldn't really call this much of an advance. This technology has been around for ages. Just no one has bothered to attempt a space based microwave energy transmission. Granted, new ideas and technology has made the technology more efficient. Efficient enough that transmitting it from space may be viable.
Are you a trained/educated physicist?
@@fredr3101 You bet. I teach it at a college in Az. Why do you ask?
@@resresres1 The concept is not new but just getting it to be feasible is.
For those wondering, the Isaac Asimov short story referred to in the beginning of this video is _Reason,_ published in 1941.
Asimov's character was a robot living on (essentially) a solar power harvesting plant. He was visualizing this even before the end of WWII!
Lol we have Google too
@@coronalight77 no, Buddy, you have google, we have Bing A.I
@@crazycutz8072 A fight! A fight! A Bard and a Bing! lol
I don’t think anyone was wondering… you just wanted to share that you knew something. 😂
@@georgelopez4193 Actually, _I_ was wondering. So, I went and looked it up. I figured if I was wondering, someone else might be wondering, too. Therefore, I wanted to share what I had just learned.
Cynical much?
I’m not a scientist. To much math and all that other stuff. but when it’s simplified down to my average brain this stuff sounds pretty cool in the resources we can achieve
Would be nice if they did a more critical deep dive instead of this fluff piece to really examine the physics, economics, etc. It's an interesting idea, but they side-stepped the question of safety. Also, do they envision sending a constant stream of energy down to some energy storage/conversion facility or would you periodically recharge these facilities, which would basically be giant batteries? Would the same space solar farm be able to recharge multiple facilities at different latitudes/longitudes? Maybe the most basic question, is it even worth it? These have to be launched into (geostationary?) orbit, which is costly; What are the energy capture/transmission efficiencies? What are the lifetimes of these solar cells in space? Being in space is a double-edged sword as there is more and more constant energy from the sun, but you are also not protected from a lot of ionizing and high energy radiation that can degrade electronics. Not saying this couldn't make sense, but it would be better for everyone to demand a little more from these types of "breakthroughs" instead of hearing clean energy and cheering reflexively.
CME will fry the whole constellation.
When he killed the power to the drone for the second time - I just saw the engineer's heart sink. "Ooo Oooo Ooooo.....can we power an object moving and 700mph" - What a muppet.
And even if those frequencies are not ionizing, if water still absorbs some of that energy could it raise temperatures in areas with a lot of water vapor?
More studies should be conducted.
DARPA has proved pumping energy into the atmosphere can have surprising effects.
The only way it works is to put the system in geosynchronous orbit so that it doesn't wander away from the ground-based station aimpoint. The amount of energy required to do that per kilogram of solar panel would exceed the amount of energy it could convert over a 50 year lifetime. So the whole thing is just a greenwash boondoogle. It might be useful for military applications (powering comms or EW surrepititiously), but it's NOT at all "green".
You’re the guy that should stay as far away from these kinds of research projects as possible
Gerard K. O'Neill talked about this in the 1970s and 80s. Read his book: The Space Studies Institute, founded on his ideas, is still working on the idea.
Yes, I read his book many years ago. However, I've since seen a lecture about Thorium reactors where the speaker pointed out that even if you could get the material in orbit at no cost it still wouldn't be profitable in comparison to other energy sources. Also, I'm just a little uncomfortable despite protestations to the contrary, about the effects of microwaving the atmosphere and its effects on water vapour and hence climate. As to powering aeroplanes with microwaves, TV reporters shouldn't think out loud.
@@harryflashman3141 Well, I wouldn't trust a thorium-reactor dude for a walk around the corner.
Neither do I trust these dudes, but it sonds more plausible.
Micorwaves can be emmitted in wavelenghts that do not interfere with anything, otherwise we would be already fried as these are widely used for telecoms.
O'Neill envisaged space solar as the primary industrial reason for settling cislunar space. Providing jobs that help Earth with unlimited carbon-neutral energy while humanity expands ever further into the solar system for jobs, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge.
Will this damage the ozone layer?
global warming 😂
Not at all. Ozone depletion is caused by chlorine and bromine atoms. They are released into the air by such things as some coolants, fire extinguishers and pesticides. Not all chlorine and bromine sources contribute to ozone depletion.
Global Warming is caused by greenhouses gasses, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
If it won't transmit thru a hand... it will only evaporate clouds😂
😢We have way too many Thomas Edisons in our lifetime to see its full potential 😢
Good point. Gotta protect this Nikolai Tesla kind of tech from Edison-like thieves and scoundrels.
@@linux750 What you just said, jon, was profound. So profound as to inspire a fundamental world-changing awareness injection into the human collective consciousness. That aspect of our phenotype is now in a state of rapid evolution. Not for the first time, our tool use has driven our development. That tool, of course, is the one we use to communicate with, which is a set of tools working constantly as one big tool. Speaking of tools, you have identified an archetype that could be used to construct an iconoclastic defense against the meme of profiting, vampiring of individual human intellect. The opening statement of a future court case: My Client was Edisonized by Mr.(Bates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos, whoever). Or this opening statement in a supreme court case: If these corporations are allowed to edisonize this humanity-changing discovery,
it will result in the permanent enslavement of the majority of humanity by that minority of society, thus the emergence of new species of humans that exclusively prey upon other humans. Thus H G Wells has manifested his prediction for the future in his novel: The Time Machine.
@@oo2free “The human spirit must prevail over technology.” - A. Einstein
Open source is the only safe way, sadly the inventor doesn't get paid that way.
Tesla
This was a power plant option in Sim City 2000.
There's nothing new under the sun 🌞
That just tells me that even though this is newly released technology, it’s already over 20 years old in development. Someone must have thought about it in order for it to make it in that game all those years ago.
@@desmondstanley4372dude, people thought about this idea simce the 60's. Science already knows how to fix lots of stuff, the problem is funding. We can end hunger and poverty right now, but there's no will to do that.
Exactly what I thought! Microwave energy.
They started saying it was from an old Asimov story.
The part that actually scares me is that it can be directed anywhere the person with the joystick wants. Not saying it’s necessarily a bad idea, but it does bring to mind countless Bond villains destroying their targets with beams from space.
The military has long since developed and weaponized this tech on their own. I've only seen non-lethal deterrent type weapons though, but I also haven't looked into it for a while.
Congrats, I watched a ted talk presented by ali about his wireless energy technology which was super fascinating, im happy to see that he achieved the vision he was going for, this is amazing!
would this be the first step in building a dyson sphere?
I wish these scientists and engineers success.
Prayers
This was a power plant option in Sim City 2000.. It's like the one form of energy that is truly renewable..
It also came with its own disaster scenario for when the beam misses its target.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else made this connection 😂 Little scary how similarly its described.
This is amazing. I hope this works for the sake of our planet and environment.
There’s nothing wrong with our planet.
It will affect the environment, if there's too many of them.
@@niluss6 lol, nah
The only people who believe in climate change, live in big cites or are too young to have watched the tax scam evolve.
@@xploration1437 yeah, you missed the "whoa!! thats hot!!!" part, didn't you. The sheep can only see unicorn's and their biases.
What an incredible achievement!. Now if only we could transmit genuine meaning to our lives..
Der Sinn des Lebens liegt nicht im Aussen, er ist in Dir drinnen. Deine eigene spirituelle Entwicklung ist das allerwichtigste in dieser Inkarnation. Das andere ist eine 2. Geschichte zu der man bestimmt sein kann, es ist die Lebensaufgabe die auf Deine Erfahrungen während der spirituellen Entwicklung, basiert...hat nichts mit Kirche oder Religion zu tun...
Life is what YOU make of it.
Amazing breakthrough. I've always hoped there would be a way to use the suns energy on large scale and easy. Since the sun is always there producing it and you basically have an unlimited energy supply until the sun dies, but then we're all dead and probably long before that
Micro meteors will destroy these.
yeah exactly, its almost like we already are!
hows is that a breakthrough, look at their publication, this is garbage
@@cstuartdcsure buddy
What’s your qualifications to speak on this topic !??
I would really love to read a report on how this affects the environment at a macro and localised scale based on different parameters of deployment. I wanna be optimistic and hope more work goes into this project.
It wont affect anything, that's why its so cool
2:06, he already felt hot in that small contraption and they plan to make a bigger one, I don't know, the Earth is already hot as it is.
@@inventorknowledge703 that transmitter is a prototype and if it is recieving energy then it can use some of that energy to cool itself and transmit out the rest. would be like a fridge sending out electricity to the rest of the house.
@@Deathwish026 Bruh, that's not how it works, Net energy gain, equals more heat. heat = energy, the problem is we need to transmit energy away from earth faster then we cause it to build up. for that we need to reduce green house gas levels in the atmosphere because they reflect the heat / energy back to earth and continue to heat the atmosphere.
I feel like money (and the potential thereof) is what writes those results... oh, and the ability to weaponize the tech. I'm pretty sure these folks aren't motivated by the possibility of bringing energy to sub-Saharan Africa.
This exists but we still pay 300+ a month for energy
If battery technology continues to improve, this could fly over-head and charge batteries which could last for the rest of the day and night, until it came back around to recharge the batteries once again. It may take decades to break even, but after that, the amount of money to be made here is potentially astounding.
'BATTERYLESS BATTERIES': (copy and paste from my files):
To help power equipment in outer space:
Potential endless energy source basically anywhere in this universe:
a. Small aluminum cones with an electrical wire running through the center of the cones, cones spaced apart (not touching I'm thinking) but end to end.
b. Electromagentic radiation energy in the atmosphere interacts with the aluminum cones.
c. Jostled atoms and molecules in the cone eventually have some electrons try to get away from other electrons of which those electrons gather at the larger end of the cone, of which also creates an area of positive charge at the smaller end of the cone.
d. The electron's in the wire are attracted to the positive end of the cone and the positive 'end' in the wire are attracted to the negatively charged end of the cone.
e. Basically a 'battery' has been created inside the electrical wire itself, different areas of electrical potential. Basically a 'wire battery' or a 'batteryless battery', however one wanted to call it.
f. Numerous cones placed end to end increases the number of 'batteries' in the wire.
(In series to increase voltage, in parallel to increase amperage).
* Via QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics) whereby electromagnetism interacts with electrons in atoms and molecules, one would have to find the correct 'em' frequency for the correct material being utilized for the cones. The shape of the cones could also come into play. The type and size of the wire as well as the type and thickness of the insulation between the cones and the wire would also be factors.
* Of course also, possibly 2D triangles made up of certain materials with a conductor going down through the center of the triangle could possible achieve the same 'batteryless' battery system.
* Plus possibly with the 2D concept, layered 2D's that absorb different energy frequencies, thereby increasing the net output.
He's talking about a massive Qi charger basically
Yeah it's always about money and not saving the earth.
@@eligebrown8998 all "alternative energy" technology is about the money - not saving earth.
FYI... lol
Our just have multiple sats
They talked about solar collection in space, but what about the transmitter? How big is that, and how much heat does it produce at receivers on the ground?
It's huge and very costly.
Is it cost efficient, even if scaled to maximum?
Kudos to all the Geeks who helped to achieve this milestone! You should have special capes made.
This is so cool!! Even if the idea they have doesn’t totally pan out, ITS OKAY because that is how you do science. Trial and error, theory into practice. Excited to see how it goes and how other scientists can build upon this !
This is a scam. No telecommunication authority would approve this.
I mean, it's always been possible... but why have we suddenly thought it a good idea to start putting tons of extremely high power RF beams raining down on us? We're not just talking television service transponders or something. This is like HAARP transmitters on steroids to become useful.
Please, DON'T call them "drones", they are quadcopters/multi-rotors.
It's funny because I remember imagining and drawing pictures about getting energy from space as a kid.. I didn't even know why I just remembered learning about solar panels and then started making pictures of satellites with long extension cords lol.
If you're standing in front of a transmitter and you start feeling warm, that's not a great sign (from what I was taught as an airman basic in radar school). This seems like a neat idea, but the line of sight requirement means that you have a straight path of potential serious health issues if you're sending a lot of energy. To me this looks like a VERY specialized use case energy transfer mechanism, essentially far from living things or at least with a safe line of sight from transmitter to receiver.
Not only does this seem dangerous due to it being microwaves, I also feel like this is a smoke and mirror act. We just have to take their word for it that the drone they tested it on didn’t have a battery in it?…. Also wouldn’t it be a massive flaw if all it takes is some guys hand to shut off power to whatever the microwaves are powering?
i totally agree, this is the equivalent to standing infront of a microwave with the door oven. They say it is non ionising, so assuming they are transmitting at super high frequency, That is still not good for you ( im not a 5G hater ). And what happens if an array in space gets misaligned, a tength of a degree in space is a couple of miles on earth = rotisserie city, just like grandma made them.
@@pizzasteve haha if 5g has people worried, wait till they hear about unconfined microwaves 😃
@@austinbevis4266exactly, the clouds in our atmosphere would block the signal just like it does now with solar.
And that's low power compared to something needed to power a city or state. If it does take off and something goes wrong, many people will die and the corporations will just say sorry.
Didnt Nikola Tesla come up with this idea around 80 years ago?
my question is how much energy is lost to the atmosphere, and specifically where. Is this going to deplete the ozone layer more than the alternatives? is it possible that it could cause harm to people near the receiver or otherwise?
Well being a 3-5 watt light bulb was enough to make a guy feel hot, imagine the 4+kw required for a house. It could power your home and melt steel at the same time.
WHY would microwave radiation affect the ozone layer?
@@reh3884 actually shooting microwaves though the atmosphere could produce ozone if I remember correctly. I don't think it would deplete it. Now cooking the guy standing on the ground... that's a real possibility. God forbid they lost control of it and it kept transmitting, it would become a WMD.
@@reh3884 i don't know too much about the atmosphere. All i know is that we're already damaging it, and I want to know if this solution is going to be less damaging than others. If you're transmitting a city worth of power from space, there's logically at least some loss to the atmosphere and i want to know if that's worse than current solutions.
@@redpug5042 I think the possibility of harvesting solar power in near future to run cities and homes without any emission of greenhouse gases is the real deal for now and I’m all in for that. However, the dissipated energy could heat up the environment more ? There is a possibility that the lost energy could radiate the existing greenhouse gases and advancing global climate change further rapidly. Correct me if I’m wrong.
After accumulating the sun's energy above the clouds, can it reliably pass that energy down through any clouds? If not, we haven't significantly gained much through the new system.
it depends upon the density of the clouds. thunder storms, no.
it's possible to do it through clouds, but I don't think the prototypes they're using will make it through clouds.
they mentioned they're using non ionizing wave lengths. if you want to go through the clouds I think you would need smaller wave lengths and such entering the ionizing ranges, so it would probably come with a hazardous air zone immediately about the receiver where the beam would go
The advantage of space based solar is the collection source can be beyond the Earth's shadow so that it can collect solar energy 24/7. The receiver stations on earth can be located in dry desert climates that have few clouds to maximize efficiency and then distributed from there thru transmission lines. It's a long way off if it's ever even economically viable in the first place.
@@quietus13 nope, that does not work well.... For the same reason that solar collection in those places does not work as well. How do you move the power? On wires? they lose electricity ever meter. In batteries? 1) EXPENISVE and 2) they lose power also The best idea I have heard of is using artificial fuel ( like gasoline). You use the solar power to create carbon neutral fuel and then transport it to where ever. Yes you lose energy in this process also, BUT you lose LESS then the other systems and it is cheaper as well then the batteries.
Plus if we use that, then we can switch older cars to synthetic gas and help with pollution.
Right now the only place trying this idea (artificial fuel) is using nuclear power. I would rather see solar used then creating more nuclear waste.
This is a huge advancement. The transmission is not the difficulty and that will likely be solved soon. Think about the touch screen on an iPhone. We though we would never be able to interact with a phone like we do now yet they created it. The transmitter is likely going to be the same. It will just take a few years to solve the issue.
Very interesting. I wonder how does this transmission of energy actually work? Would the weather and cloud block this beam of energy? How much power does it actually give? What’s the radius of this beam? Can this radius be controlled? How much energy does it take to maintain these modules? Will they be able to send energy at the night side of Earth? So many questions but the subject is interesting nonetheless.
Uses microwaves like a microwave oven to wirelessly transmit power
Imagine "free energy" .
Politicians would do anything to stop it or tax it so you can't even afford it.
It's not free to make and to send it in space, of course you gonna have to pay to use that technology but I hope and it surely won't happen that the day it's gonna be refunded we won't have to pay to use it. It would be a big step forward for humanity.
Uhhhhh pretty sure you mean greedy businessmen.
Nothing is free. You must work for everything that is the way of life on earth. You cannot blame politicians or people for this, this way of life has existed for hundreds of millions of years before humans
@@OO-tb4ou i sure can blame greedy people and i do.
@@gizmo6746 sure but at least understand the way of life of all creatures on earth. It's just life, bud.
Awesome!!
Finally Nikola Tesla's dream coming true
Isn't what this gentleman essentially describing a Dyson sphere? Especially when he mentioned "full sun sized system".
Effectively, yeah.
Yep, pretty much. If we get particular about it, it's more accurately a Dyson swarm, as it's a bunch of satellites instead of one solid structure.
“Let’s try this, can you turn the power off and then turn it back on”
-Genius
That’s incredible hope to see it soon
Great job guys. This is fantastic
No, as RF engineer this is like Oceangate. A terrible idea. They are scamming investors.
@@dtibor5903 As An Rf EnGiNeEr, there are some people much smarter than oceangate and yourself involved lmao
Incredible!
Sending more energy through the atmosphere. Whet could go wrong?
This could potentially be an energy harvester, and the sun shield all in one. These are the types of stories that should be promoted.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
@@urgreatestenemy3044i did not expect that comment after seeing your pfp.
kudos for thinking independently.
@@jd35711what are my social views based on my pfp?
@@justadildeau reflexive contrarianism
Or could be a deathstar
Pure free energy.. could you imagine how this would change everything?
Which is why it'll never happen, Oil and Gas will never allow it
@@TheCool_Guy23this is worse than oil and gas. Let’s put a (his words) “heat lamp” directly onto earth. Talk about global warming. Comments here oblivious to silent contributor to the drying out of the earth and all of its inhabitants… Electromagnetic Radiation.
Clearly y'all haven't seen The Cloverfield paradox yet
Forward progress is always a good thing for us!!! Great job guys!!
I'm not a conspiracy person at all, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that technology that allows super high powered beams of energy to be "transmitted" across large distances has "other implications". While this specific implementation may utilize non-ionizing wavelengths, I can't imagine it'd be difficult to change that. Either way, very cool technology and my hats off to these researchers.
The military will want to turn it into a nation melting weapon
They are directing microwaves over long distances. Darpa has this tech already and has weaponized it. Nothing new here.
Death star
Jewish space lasers have left the chat.
Dr. Evil agrees, and would like to see your resume. 😅
THIS is what people meant by 'wireless charging'
Doing humanity's work. Things like this give me hope.
This could be a ground breaking breakthrough
People still believe our Freemason history, they were doing it, along with curing cancer and other ailments, before our time. It was all removed
Nope. This isn't a new thing. And it's completely unfeasible. At best it will be the next gen of CHI wireless phone chargers.
@@motosk8er2 It's not unfeasible if the ancients used it to power the cities here and off planet. There is only opposition to change and progress which we are all used to.
@@togowack Yes. It 100% is lmao. So your a crazy person then?
@@motosk8er2If it was feasible the amount of energy that would be in transmitted through the air is insane and unsafe. I don’t get how this stuff makes the news.
Some of us may end up like ants under a magnifying glass if this thing has a glitch.
It's ok! If there's a glitch, just wear the colour blue like the roofs in Hawaii so you don't attract the beams.
This is fantastic. The news showed it as "carbon free", but would it exacerbate the real problem, global warming, if used on a large scale? Would it bring more heat/energy onto the planet that otherwise would have been reflected away?
about 30% of solar radiation is reflected back into space without heating the atmosphere, and these collectors would of course prevent any sunlight which strikes them from reaching the atmosphere, so unless they're more than 30% efficient at converting that light into microwaves and beaming those microwaves out, it would be impossible for the process to result in net energy gain for the planet. when you consider that state of the art solar panels are currently less than 25% efficient and that none of the collected energy which is converted to useful work would contribute to global warming, it becomes clear that the answer to your - excellent - question is "no".
the only way this could conceivably warm the planet would be if we radically increased the efficiency of solar cells, which would be a great problem to have.
@@jd35711 They were talking about providing energy at night. That would cause a net gain in atmospheric heat. How far out in orbit they would need to be to get sunlight at night (beamed down at an angle) didn't seem to be mentioned. And using rockets to get them up there in the first place, how long would they have to be operating to offset that heat/energy addition to the atmosphere.
@@ImperrfectStranger fair points - the details matter, and this video doesn't provide them (though tbf it's a network news clip, not an investor pitch or engineering conference presentation)
@@ImperrfectStrangerand how are they going to get power at night again?
@@bonedoc4556 That was one of the claims in the video. Ask them. I can only suggest a wide expanse of transmitters well out in space. You can see the moon at night, can't you? Almost all the light coming from the moon is reflected sunlight.
Hey guys! Would love to have some answers/ solutions for these:
1. Something like this would take a lot to maintain in the space right?
2. From maintaining its orbit and to making it not so much lightweight that it would delocate from the orbit or it might get damaged from the massive solar flares, How would we tackle those? (I guess protective films would be able to help but how would we apply them on the modules as they are very thin?
3. How would we make the modules move relative to the speed of the object which is getting the energy for example car, train, planes? How would we monitor so many transports?
4. What is the efficiency?
Weight isn't really a factor when it comes to maintaining an orbit, as any object in orbit is going to be there pretty much indefinitely.
In theory it will eventually run out of momentum, but there's so little up there that could slow it down that you're almost certainly not going to have to do anything more than occasionally adjust in order to remain in a geostationary position.
The only thing that weight really affects significantly is how hard it is to achieve orbit and how easy it is to make adjustments when there.
Maintenance would be a concern, but if the technology has minimal moving parts and doesn't degrade when exposed to those radiation levels it might not need much unless it gets hit by space debris, which is a very unlikely outcome.
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 Thank you! I understood! 👍
How much heat will it exert on the earth?
If someone stands in the beam for an extended period of time, will their health be affected?
These are the kinds of questions you should be asking.
And also how about the ground-based telescope? Isn't the carpet will obstruct the view from space ??
most likely there will be substations that receive the initial source of energy and than that will be distributed in other various styles to the current power grid.
AC current is generated by spinning magnets. Right now we use gas engines to spin the magnets, we could use this beam as a way to power the spinning of magnets, and those magnets could run our current energy grid indefinitely
Oh nice, getting closer to Vanquish.
I wonder what the collectors will cost (vs the ground-based solar systems). As with all things, I imagine future iterations and lateral technological advancements will produce pleasing advancements provided the research continues and/or is carried out by competing scientists. Also, as the launch costs decrease and the Guru-type technology matures, it will be even more impressive. Hopefully applications remain peaceful and beneficial to all, but big money comes from military contracts. And, when the military is involved, countermeasure systems are right alongside such research. Additionally, such technology could be used with extraplanetary rovers, moon bases (those housed in the shadowy regions of craters), rescue operations, off-grid establishments (with money to burn, I guess).
Why should a cost even be factored?? Money is such an antiquated concept for World-saving technology.
The problem with your question is "How much it will cost".
It doesn't have to cost anything. The monetary system is too ingrained in our brainwashed minds.
Well, one thing for sure, this is another utility driven energy distribution system, which means take from the many and give to the few. Home rooftop solar puts a little bit of money in everyone's pocket. This will take a little bit of everyone's money and put it in the pockets of a few.
@@mickael486 Nothing is truly free. Someone will have to exchange something in order for you to access this technology, at least for a time. After many years it will be making no money because someone will have thought of something better. As that happens, this will have become more widely available to the world. Those with money get everything new for a time. When it is old, the rest will have it. I'm in my mid twenties and I believe that either my children or grandchildren will see free energy for the entire world in some form or another.
@@mickael486 it has to cost what they invest doing this possible, + all the technology employed on it... Chips cost for example because there's a whole process behind it, you know how difficult is to fabricate the transistors that maje your cellphone work??? No you don't your not an Electronic engineer... Well I know, and is not just about the wafers with the Extreme UV machines that are expensive by themselves, to achieve 5 nm 4nm technologies, but also all the process of etching, polishing, etc. The design that engineers have to make to achieve maximum use of the wafers, try to optimize power area and performance somehow because one improved makes the others worse... And even the resources taken from the Earth, because yes Si is everywhere, is sand, not difficult to get should be free, but you have many chemical components in the chips, Gold, Silver, Al, Ga, In, P, Sb, As, etc. Etc. For the dopants, for the connectors, for the BEOL FEOL layers, and every other components in the chip, capacitors, some resistors, the PCB itsel is another material, most of the modern cellphones are IP65 or IP67 of protection, so the same with their technology might have some conditions to gather the beam, is not easy, therefore is not free 😋.... If it was free the Engineers wouldn't have a job and all those years of Fourier transforms and Quantum mechanics that not everyone goes through would be in vain
I can see this turning into a James Bond movie....where the villian now has a microwave beam cannon holding the world hostage :)
In the name of diversity and inclusion, it will be the first trans villian. Blow-feld.
The Avengers will save the day
Nikola Tesla figure this out decades ago, but the information has been suppressed.
The one big drawback is when the control system gets hacked and the energy beam is used for destruction. But that is the case for all sources of energy.
If its using microwave energy I'm more thinking of what it would do to clouds when these are scaled up
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
I'm wondering what it would do to the ozone layer at the higher levels they're talking about. It's not very difficult to separate O3.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 Has anyone ever built a steam engine that runs on seawater before?
@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 Not sure about a steam engine running on saltwater. But I see no difference in running a terminal solar plant on sea water as saltwater will boil and create steam that would turn the turbines.
I'm sure there would be issues with the brime water that is left after boiling, the longer you keep the water boiling the more salt would build up as when water boils away the salt would remain.
Salt is also a little bit corrosive so you would probably have to use materials other than iron for moving the sea water around the plant but those are only minor problems that have to be accounted for.
Im really curious how this effects the area around usas far as radiation Is it safe to stand in front of energy transfer for long periods of time
as it is not ionizing then it wont damage cells and cause cancer. they did mention transmitting energy at lower levels than what you would receive from the sun. i think they said its sent through microwaves
We dont know dawg thats why they are learning about it ...
Wow that’s groundbreaking, one of the best innovations 🔥🔥🔥🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I'm not sure our Planet's climate, and the life it supports, could recover after waiting 1 to 2 decades for this badly needed technology to become an available reality.
If NASA, Space X, ESA, JPL, other Science academia organizations, & the commercial energy sector had the Will to work together... this technology could be a reality much, much sooner.
We need to scale up progress in other areas too, that way we aren't simply waiting on this.
Sir Nikolai Tesla would be proud 😊
Tesla did this decades ago.
Brings back happy memories of playing Sim City 2000. I'd set up a large microwave array then sit back with the popcorn for a few in-game years to watch a orbital misfire happen and burn a swath through the city. 😆🔥
HEY! I LOVED IT and regular Sim City! SNES
This is revolutionary! This is the ultimate green energy. Now we are talking about change. Now We just need to store this energy for use.
This is the problem with society. Our ongoing quest for energy, even while our planet is completely collapsing and NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction) is upon us all, from our centuries of gorging on energy. Hopium is still being pushed out to the masses...
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
Batteries 🔋
@@urgreatestenemy3044 the issue is maintenance. Could you imagine all of the dirt that builds up and the amount of work required to keep them clean and functional? It’s astronomical.
@chikapunk4340 Actually there are already many companies that have started putting solar in the Sahara desert so far they haven't run into issues with dirt or dust you could also use something like ceramic wax that creates a positively charged layer that repels dirt and dust preventing anything from sticking to the mirrors.
so... my big question is this:
If energy can neither be created, nor destroyed, but merely transformed. What long term cost is beaming energy DIRECTLY to the earth going to have? You felt the heat by merely walking near one of the small devices, imagine one that's much much larger, and the area it will be splashing with microwaves would be much larger. How do we contend with that? There's a lot going on here, beyond the energy delivery.
This is really interesting, sounds like a new world wonder. Use it for the neediest or the greediest.
As always it will be for the Greediest.
If this breakthrough is a success, we might just be a step away from entering the next level of civilization, harnessing all the power from our own Sun.
Now we also need an efficient way to store the energy.
When the Dyson Swarm finally goes up, this will be the moment that future historians say was the beginning of the story.
A swarm of vacuum cleaners?
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@@thatguyoverthere8355 10 out of 10!
I always love when these big idea tech types answer a question like "how long will this take?" with something like "we're looking at a decade or two." Like, maybe if they use the "one or two" language, it will seem shorter than saying "maybe ten or twenty years."
But why should they lie? It very well could take 10+ years to create it at scale.
Who says "Ten or twenty years." instead of "One or two decades." though?
I have always known we can do this. We got a big fusion reactor right there above us. Never understood why we have to build one on Earth. Wireless power is something we have dreamed of and even could be used to power electric cars and trucks.
Waiting for the "Scientist found dead in apartment" headlines
I've seen this in documentaries. This will also have the added effect of blocking some, though not nearly all, of the sunlight hitting the planet, helping erase global warming. As more and more of these go up and are stationed equidistant around the earth they will ease the amount of rays entering and heating the planet.
Blocking out the sun should NEVER be our aim. Why don’t you think that through a bit…
Wow! 🤘
Very fascinating indeed. But the guy felt the heat when he was standing right in front of the small source. Imagine the heat and how it could impact the flights from a kilometre long (as told in video) source.
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hands."
Thats fusion
I'm thinking Dyson Sphere now
We can’t wait 20 years we need this now
Pass, sounds like cancer to me.
@@silvershady484been waiting for the conspiracy nut comment 😂
@@botsareeverywherebe the first to bathe in the microwaves then. Put some chocolate in your pocket so you can see when your fate is in Marie Curie levels.
@@bonedoc4556 Microwave emitters are used all the time to heat muscles and joints in physical therapy. It was xrays and gamma rays that killed Marie Curie.
Nikola Tesla has entered the chat
From 120 yrs. ago. Welcome back, you fricking genius.
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As an Electrical engineer, this is all great in theory and not reality for mass market. This may be good for initial projects going to different planets, but its the dumbest idea in history to put this in space for all our power needs.
Lemme guess, it somehow translates to us making water boil
lol not this time more like a wireless cell phone charger in space
It doesn't
1. wont the EM energy heat up the Earth even More ?.....
(If it was massively industrialized...?)
2. How is this ground breaking?
Isn’t that how the the sun (and a mirror) works?
3. Where are you going to get the energy and material to make and launch all those “Satellites...?
Also; you are going to clutter up the orbit area of Earth even more...?
exactly this is the stupidest idea i have ever heard of
oh right and ofc the frequencies disturb too
I’m curious how storm clouds and other weather conditions would affect it. Also sending those large panels into space sounds like the job for a very large reusable rocket. #spacex
Ya, clouds would make this setup impractical.
It would cuck it for sure, but its prolly really low frequency anyways.
Amazing great news!
This is like starlink but on another level, shouts out to the human brain for getting it going !!!!
Always thought this was possible, in the 60's we built the "talk on a light beam" project with a transistor.
Possible, but will the cost ever make sense? Launching stuff to space, especially their target orbit, isn't cheap.
What are the environmental effects. On the ozone, on the green house effect?
@@807800 How did Starlink get so many satellites into orbit, so cheaply?
This tech is ancient was already here and was removed by the Freemasons. Wake Up People, the buildings ran on wireless electricity. Look at all the antennas on them. The red bricks conducted. Mercury balls lit up the cities from the towers.
@@807800 Correct. This technology isn't new and is certainly not feasible for anything other then the next generation of wireless phone chargers. With how inefficient this is, you would need a 1kw transmitter just to slowly charge a laptop. And a 1kw transmitter is roughly equivalent to your microwave. That would be pretty unpleasant to walk threw and would fry any electronics in it's path. Why do you think the drone was tied down with strings instead of using an actual flight controller board?
While this is great, this would also mean that we now have solar powered death ray satellites orbiting earth. I hope the software and the respective keys are well maintained and kept extra secure lol. I don't get how this hasnt caused an uproar/debate yet.
Exactly but the braindead slaves in the comments here just gobble all the propaganda up. The idea of filling our already polluted lower earth orbit with more satellites, ones the size of football fields, to then transform solar energy into microwave energy to then be beamed back to earth is absurd. Not to mention we would have to implement infrastructure and hardware to convert all those microwaves into electricity. Also, just because microwaves are non ionizing doesn't mean that they have no biological effects. For example our body has adapted and evolved around more powerful UVB rays that we use to produce vitamin D. Just because a 2.45ghz frequency is non ionizing doesnt mean it can have specific effects, such as dielectric heating with water molecules which is why this is used in microwave ovens. The idea of polluting our environment with a bunch of different frequencies of microwaves that were never naturally present on earth is very dangerous. Some animals and insects are even more sensitive to this than us humans.
A directed energy weapon is what this really is.
If this is a directed energy weapon then so is your microwave.
@@motosk8er2 haha good point👏🏽
@@motosk8er2 Yep, but a microwave is contained within its bounds...This would not be.
@@motosk8er2 yes if you take the door off. Lol
@@DaleHartley and this uses a more powerful and focused beam of microwaves. Microwaves can hurt you. Not sure why this clown thinks a microwave oven is the same. 🤣
You'll have to pay for the parts, assembly, transportation, replacement, advancement, upkeep and operations. It's possible the costs could go so low that to the average person the cost is practically nothing. Getting it to places power never has been before will open the door to new customers and new profit, which will drive development and growth. This could actually work.
Wow truly amazing what mankind can accomplish 👏
technology that causes cancer omg awesome!
I can imagine a time when this technology is also used in place of high voltage power lines. Instead of having to place towers every 500 meters to support cables, the towers could be many kilometers apart, limited only by the curvature of the Earth.
Oh, and watch birds die huh? And probably all other animals on the planet to.. because a lot non-ionizing radiation IS actually harmful. Just much much slower then ionizing. Like, did you know that holding a cell phone to your head A LOT is actually harmful? Putting it in your pocket, that even bluetooth has been shown to cause changes to cells in test animals?
And thats all much lower power then wireless power transmission would be. You're talking about sending millions of watts through the air.. ... that ain't gonna be good for us or the environment.
The problem is that the earth atmosphere and it's water vapor blocks most of the power transmited through the air. THe reciving dishes need to be huge and would bot be feasible. THe whole concept of space based solar is a pipedream that would only work if we somehow changed the laws of physics and that is not possible.
wouldn't this essentially be an invisible death ray between those two points? I just don't see how you move enough energy without it being harmful to anything in the path (since it has to overcome atmospheric losses and transmission/reception side losses). And it's also invisible, seems VERY dangerous to me unless it was deployed in VERY controlled places (and I don't what use case that would be where wires wouldn't be better, but I'm sure there are some where breaching a shape with metal would interfere with its function so this could be a way to get power inside whatever you're building).
Nikola Tesla was way ahead of us, if you go back in history, once he made a car fully electric with no battery and unknown power source, everyone was wondering how he did it. Now, couple of decades later, we reached his level of knowledge with this research.